NEW ORLEANS – The game, Nick Saban insisted rather testily the day before, was never about him. Said it wouldn’t define him as a person or as a coach, no matter what happened on the field.
Sure felt a lot like it Monday night.
Two national titles in three years? Saban can check that one off his list of unfinished tasks.
Coach a defense so smothering it pitched the first shutout ever in a national title game? Put a check beside that one, too.
Winning an unprecedented three BCS titles? Yeah, that, too.
And how about beating the coach who took over for him when he left LSU? No matter what Saban says publicly — and it’s never much — that had to be the sweetest part of the whole night.
There is an undisputed king among coaches in the undisputed king of all conferences. He wears Alabama red, and if this continues, `Bama fans will be talking about him in the same breath as the great Bear Bryant.
Sorry Nick, but on this night the game was all about you.
Not the kicker who somehow managed to get five field goals through the uprights. Not the defense that stopped LSU at every turn and didn’t allow the
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